26/02/2007 Archived Article: "Weekends in the Serrania de Ronda; Edible wild plants and more"
 Text from Ecotienda PuraVida:
Weekend courses on medicinal, aromatic and edible wild plants began in February and will continue throughout March and April. Activities will include
-- Workshop on essential oil extraction, with a still and woodfire, to create the steam.
-- Workshop of exterior tapestry making using cattails, reeds, lily of the valley, agave, etc..
-- Workshop of traditional basketry using natural materials such as reeds, olive, wicker and grapevines.
These courses are dedicated to those who want to enjoy a few days in nature. They will be taught how to recognize and use the edible wild fruits and plants which nature gives us so spontaneously and generously. This great resource is full of potent properties and virtues, as well as highly nutritious, as though designed to meet all of our needs. Despite the destructive and irresponsible or ignorant lifestyles our culture condones, it is still possible to live in a more natural and free way, more in harmony with nature.
Eli Lorazo, living now in Algatocín, is teaching the course. She has been making her own natural medicines and beauty products from local wild plants for years. She has her own aromatherapy still, and the production of the oils and herbal waters is all artesanal and very high quality, small scale work. She has been selling her products in local markets like the Christmas Fair, and the Feria de la Gastronomia, and in the Ecotienda Puravida in Gaucín there is a range of her products and beautiful illustrations of wild plants. She will teach the plant courses and the aromatherapy workshops, and the basketmaking and tapestrymaking will be taught by a friend of hers.
GROUP SIZE : minimum 6, maximum 10 people.
CALENDAR
16-17-18 MARCH: Wild lavendar distillation. Exterior tapestry making workshop. Edible wild plants course.
23-24-25 MARCH: Medicinal, aromatic and edible wild plants course.
Natural cosmetics workshop, how to make your own toothpaste, bath salts, etc..
30-31 MARCH-1 APRIL: Medicinal and edible wild plants course. Natural medicines workshop, how to make your own syrups, tinctures and salves.
13-14-15 APRIL: Medicinal, aromatic, and edible wild plants identification and uses course.
20-21-22 APRIL: White thyme distillation, tradicional basketry workshop.
27-28-29 APRIL: End of the season, closing course; classification and recognition of edible and medicinal flowering wild plants.
The meeting point and overnight lodge is in Algatocin (Málaga) in a rustic and charming house (with fireplace) called el Alambique, just outside the pueblo or village.
For those that are coming from far, and would like to enjoy one more night in these surroundings, the Friday night is included in the price.
Courses begin Saturday at 10:30 and end Sunday at 17:30
The price is 180 € for the weekend. This includes the courses, lodging Friday and Saturday night, and lunch on Saturday and Sunday. Vegetarian meals.
Reservations 15 days before the starting date. (In order to cancel a reservation, please do so minimum 10 days before the class begins.)
50% deposit for a reservation.
Bank account number 2103 0136 1 2 0040000673. Concept ‘Wild plant Course’
Contact number : 670-260-751, E-mail. eli-lozano@hotmail.com
Feel the earth, walk in the woods, get in touch with nature
We realize that it frees and fulfills us, gives us nourishment
Without trapping or enslaving us, it feeds us freely
Spiritual food, of which we are in such need.
It is also sport, health, joy, play, excitement and life
Above survival
It is living.
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